Collector

Location: Syracuse, NY (100% onsite)


Do you have collections, administrative, or clerical experience? Do you have strong organization skills and excellent attention for detail? Are you excited about the opportunity to join an innovative, growing law firm that has been successful for more than 165 years?

The Syracuse Team at Harris Beach Murtha is in search of a Collector to collect money judgements through the utilization of judgement enforcement mechanisms available to judgement creditors. You will thrive in this role if you have:

• 2+ years of office experience; collections background in legal environment preferred
• Associates degree or equivalent work experience preferred
• Extreme attention to detail and accuracy

• Sound judgment and a sense of accountability for working independently and proactively

• Strong verbal and written communication, client service, and listening skills

The Collector will be responsible for communicating with debtors, clients, sheriffs and courts regarding recovery. Do you have the drive and desire to:

• Conduct searches for debtors and their assets
• Determine when files are not collectable or require further action from attorney
• Maintain accurate file records and consistently performs file review process
• Order various reports relative to collections proceedings
• Skiptrace to obtain addresses on new files as needed
• Prepare settlement documents and/or repayment plans
• Prepare various enforcement documents for recovery
• Prepare payoffs for debtors and third parties
• Prepare status reports for clients
• Assist with other duties as needed

Harris Beach Murtha recognizes everyone has a right to be included. You will be successful in your career at the firm if you:

• Maintain high standards of performance and have a professional, cooperative, positive, and flexible attitude
• Demonstrate good organizational skills for prioritizing workload in a fast-paced environment

• Enjoy working with diverse personalities within various levels of the firm
• Demonstrate the ability to acquire understanding quickly and absorb new information rapidly

• Exhibit conscientiousness, dedication, self-discipline, and a sense of responsibility
• Believe in the firm's core values: collaboration, inclusion, ingenuity, respect, integrity, and commitment

• Are comfortable working fully onsite

Harris Beach Murtha is not accepting candidate submissions from recruiting agencies for this position during the first two weeks after posting. Following this period, agencies with an active fee agreement with the firm may reach out to our internal recruitment team at View email address on click.appcast.io to inquire about potential collaboration for this position.

Salary information will vary depending upon relevant experience for the position, geographic locations and weekly hours schedule. The anticipated weekly schedule for the Collector in Syracuse is 38.75 hours per week.

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Syracuse, NY: $22.34 - $29.78/hour

Harris Beach Murtha is committed to an inclusive environment and we welcome applications from diverse candidates with varied background and skills, including military experience. Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

About Harris Beach Murtha:

Harris Beach Murtha formed in 2025 via the combination of Harris Beach PLLC and Murtha Cullina LLP. A forward-thinking and innovative partnership with the benefit of more than 250 years of combined history, Harris Beach Murtha's New York roots reach back to 1856 and the firm has had ties to New England since 1936. Harris Beach and Murtha Cullina were separately among the country's top law firms as ranked by The National Law Journal.

Harris Beach Murtha and its subsidiaries have a strong Northeast presence, but a global reach. Clients include Fortune 100 corporations, privately held companies, emerging businesses, public sector entities, tax-exempt organizations and individuals. The firm's practice areas and industries served span appellate law, business litigation, commercial real estate, construction, corporate, environmental, energy, financial institutions, financial restructuring, government compliance and investigations, health care, immigration, intellectual property, labor and employment, mass torts, medical and life sciences, political law, product liability, public finance, tax, and trusts and estates.


The firm's lawyers and consultants practice from offices throughout Connecticut in Bantam, Hartford, New Haven and Stamford; New York state in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, New York City, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Long Island and White Plains, as well as in Boston, Massachusetts and Newark, New Jersey.

The firm's policy prohibiting unlawful discrimination applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring, placement, assignment of duties, training, promotion, compensation & benefits and termination. It is the policy of Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC that all applicants and employees enjoy a positive, respectful and productive work environment, free from behavior, actions or language constituting unlawful harassment. Accordingly, harassment or discrimination of any kind based on an individual's race or color, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, military status, genetic predisposition, carrier status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, creed, domestic violence victim status or any other legally protected status is strictly prohibited. Harris Beach Murtha complies with the provisions of the Human Rights Law, all other State and Federal statutory and constitutional non-discrimination provisions including non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.